Maureen Elkins - A Couple Planning lyrics

They sat out on the doorstep in the late sweet-scented glow of early springtime twilight Anyone would know just by the way they were rocking that they were in good accord. That's the only way you'd know it for they never spoke a word. At last he shifted a little and said , real casual like, "Guess it's time for painting." She gave her chair a hike and said with no expression, "Why paint the shed this year? To do the house 'd be enough with everything' so dear." She added gentle-like, "Twill likely save us fifty-odd, right sensible 'twould appear." He roused at last and slowly mused, "That's a mighty fine idea." She smugly smiled to hear those words. She felt at last content For now her flowers would be safe Since that was what she meant when she mentioned leaving the shed undone she'd had no thought of the cost, but she knew the color would be barn red and her hollyhocks be lost. Now she'd look forward to flower time, for against the old brown shed her hollyhocks would look real good for they were white and red. She'd studied the book to find the seed She'd dreamed for two whole years. She could see them against the unpainted shed, sometimes she'd been close to tears just thinkin' of the way they'd look. Now they would bloom and grow and why George saved his "fifty-odd" He'd never dream or know.